Élisée Reclus
Élisée Reclus | |
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| Born | 15 March 1830 Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France |
| Died | 4 July 1905 (aged 75) Torhout, Belgium |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin |
| Occupation(s) | Geographer, anarchist revolutionary, and writer |
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Jacques Élisée Reclus (French: [ʁəkly]; 15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.